The top reported proficiency rate is 49% in English language arts. The lowest is 11% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Hill El
Hill Elementary sits on West Mount Houston Road in north Houston, serving grades one through five within Aldine ISD. The school draws from a neighborhood that reflects Houston broadly: a dense mix of residential and commercial uses along major thoroughfares, with no traditional zoning to separate them. The area is firmly within the urban core of the country's fourth-largest city, a place shaped by energy, healthcare, and logistics employment and by steady, outward-pushing population growth that has made the Houston metro the fastest-growing major region in the country by raw numbers in recent years.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black students making up most of the remainder and smaller numbers of white, multiracial, and other students. The vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely among Houston-area schools that serve high concentrations of economically disadvantaged families. English learner counts were not reported in the data available here, though the presence of Spanish-language STAAR assessments at fourth and fifth grade suggests a meaningful bilingual or dual-language population. IEP data was also not reported.
State testing results from the most recent school year give a mixed picture. On STAAR, the Texas assessment that runs from third grade through fifth, reading and language arts results show real variation by grade. Third graders tested in English showed roughly a third reaching proficiency, while fifth graders tested in English came in just above half. The fourth-grade ELA cohort, tested in Spanish and small in number, was the strongest of the three. Math proficiency was lower across the board: third graders reached just under a third, and the fourth-grade Spanish-assessed group was well below that, with fifth-grade math results suppressed due to a very small tested group. Science, tested only at fifth grade, showed a particularly low proficiency rate, with only a small fraction of students meeting the standard. Against other districts in Harris County, the school's overall proficiency index sits just below the midpoint of that group of districts, which includes a wide range from struggling to high-performing. A parent who wants to understand whether performance here has been improving, holding steady, or declining will want to ask the school directly, because only a single year of data was available and trend comparisons could not be made.
The school does not serve middle or high school grades, so graduation rates, AP access, and career pathway data do not apply here.
On the housing side, the zip code where the school sits carries home values well below both the Texas state typical and the national typical, and modestly below the Harris County median listing price. Rents in the area are meaningfully lower than the county norm as well. For a family weighing affordability alongside school choice, this part of north Houston is among the more accessible entry points into the metro's housing market. County-level data shows listing activity growing, prices easing slightly year over year, and homes sitting on the market a bit longer than a year ago, signs of a market that has cooled somewhat from its recent peak.
Publicly reported information about district-level changes at Aldine ISD was not found within the research conducted here, so strategic priorities, recent program expansions, or administrative shifts were left out rather than guessed at.
For a family with children in the elementary grades, Hill El is a neighborhood public school in a high-poverty urban community, offering both English and Spanish-medium instruction pathways. Academic proficiency rates are below the middle of the Harris County district range, most visibly in math and science, and a parent would be well served to speak directly with the school about what support structures are in place for students who are not yet meeting grade-level standards.
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